Rick Baker

Founder Spirited Leaders Corporation

  • Waterloo ON

INSPIRE PEOPLE, GROW PROFITS!

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Biography

Rick helps entrepreneurs improve their businesses. He has founded or co-founded 8 companies and 1 partnership. Several of his companies grew rapidly to multi-$Millions in annual sales…the largest to $1 Million per day in the first 3 years.

Rick injects enthusiasm, personal stories, and creative thought - all aimed at helping business people be comfortable, confident, and inspired about their work. Rick’s messages are about People: about their differences; about their personal strengths; about their characters; about their habits, some good, some bad; about their business visions and their business dreams; about how people can try new things and change for the better. He co-founded a business that achieved $1 Million per day in sales within its first 3 years. He has helped clients build $1-Billion businesses.

Rick is a life-long learner. It dates back to childhood, when his mother inspired in him a love of books and an attitude of curiosity…and independence. Rick has a large library of business, self-development, philosophy, psychology, and other educational books. But, the most-important lessons have been learned by Rick at the School of Hard Knocks. Rick has been an ‘achiever and commander’ since childhood. His drive coupled with his inability to control his natural potential to command caused much havoc during most of his career. Rick intimidated people without trying…sometimes, without even knowing it was happening.

Over the last half of his 30-year career Rick has changed. For this, he gives credit to his son, Frank, who faces challenges unknown to most of us. As he tried to help his son, Rick began to read books about the brain, about behaviour, and specifically about how people can change their thinking, their feelings, and their habits. As Rick worked to help his son, he recognized the need to change his own thoughts, feelings, and habits.

Rick believes, and he inspires business people to understand:
• Business Only Contains 3 Things: People, Process-Systems, & Situations
• People Only Do 3 Things: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things
• Courage and Confidence are the starting place for personal values and attractive character
• Better understanding of self and of others is the main key to change
• Improved Communication, and simple 1-Page Tools, are other keys
• And, Change is Only Constructive when People are Comfortable

Industry Expertise

Training and Development
Human Resources
Business Services

Areas of Expertise

A) Business Changing for the Better: Good Habits Bad Habits & New Things
People Process & Situations

Affiliations

  • Centre for Family Business
  • The Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce

Testimonials

President & CEO

ECNG Inc., Mar 2010

I dealt with Rick while he was at Cibola and for years before when he was with other natural gas marketing companies. Rick is a very creative and smart guy who delivers what he says he will.

President

Working Brain Associates Inc., Nov 2010

Recently I attended a workshop presented by Spirited Leaders. I've also enjoyed some interesting conversations with Rick about brain function. Rick's experience, broad knowledge base and varied interests inform the quality of his work. His presentations are informative and fun, and have a clear, simple but powerful message. Rick has a genuine desire to establish and build relationships which are beneficial to all parties.

Communications Analyst

Response Generators, Nov 2011

Rick's "Spirited Leaders" workshops teach the core essentials which are critical to any social marketing program. Social marketing simply won't work unless the content is vivid and the stories are sticky -- anything less will just be lost in the sea of tweets and mundane posts.

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Sample Talks

People: Unleashing Individuals’ Talents & Strengths

Help inspire your people to focus on Individuals’ Talents and Strengths

If your managers focus on each person's individual strengths, then there will be a 99% likelihood that your people will be 6 times more actively engaged in their day-to-day work!

Talents & Strengths Topics:
• Talk About Talent!
• Talk About Feeling Positive!
• Strengths-based Recruiting
• Strengths-based Role Descriptions & Performance Reviews
• Advanced Strengths Coaching

Availability

  • Keynote
  • Panelist
  • Workshop Leader
  • Author Appearance
  • Corporate Training

Fees

$2500 to $3500*Will consider certain engagements for no fee